as a nurse i work in hospitals and one thing remains the same throughout the mall there are too many sick people. it seems all diseases are on the rise. how many people do you know with heart problems diabetes. the hospitals are full and there's not enough nurses to properly take care of them all. the quality of our food is decreasing and the number of sick people are increasing there has to be a connection. the majority of americans are overweight and at the same time malnourished is it because of refined grains or excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives what role do they play in our health. thousands of chemicals are allowed to be used in our food supply. what is polysorbate sixty. do you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is. this is the question my producer asked me one day while we were in the grocery store i didn't know so he began telling me that it was

bad for the heart and how he didn't eat them he said it's in most processed foods so i started reading labels and found it in hundreds of products. when i realized it was in food that i was feeding my toddler i did my research. i found out it had devastating consequences to our health especially the heart which is the focus of my nursing career as a father a husband a nurse and a filmmaker the next logical step was to make this movie. war.

what is a hydrogenated oil. and russian it or. i don't know. that's a good question i judge unaided all this something you put in your cotton they can run smooth and oil that's healthier for you than other oils they've heard today i don't know exactly what it is i don't know and while that has maybe an extra each will molecule in it i don't know it at the idea no clue i have no idea but i think it's really defining what sort of good while hydrogenated oil of believe is the boiler that is so humanly altered oil cooked or animal fact that no two guys ran your fracture in a way tour i thought from something flowed through it or not i don't know as i more environmentally safe magic something you massage i don't remember and other bacteria stays in cars. comes out of mcdonald's or try to make them turn to.

an oil that has been refused water get a lot of packages and food must be preserved some time spent discussing something to the scruff of the. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a man made fat a trans fat you see that's just a big molecule that's made mostly of carbon the carbon atoms are bonded together like a chain they're hydrogen atoms attached along the chain and if the carbon chain is completely saturated with hydrogen that's a saturated fat and if there are some missing spots. that's an onset treated that get it ok so where does trans fat in trans fats in as a. bizarro type of. unsaturated fatty acid

where the double bond is present but the hydrogen atoms that are attached to the carbon chain are on the opposite side of the carbon chain. just about all of the polyunsaturated fats in nature have the carbon atoms on the same side it's sis but with industrial processing of vegetable oils the bonds get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on opposite sides of the chain you might say well who cares where the hydrogen atoms are after all. but it turns out that we have evolved to deal with. fatty acids that have the hydrogen in the same side so this we have not evolved to deal with these new kinds of fatty acids that are produced through industrial processing of vegetable oils and this is actually wreaking havoc with our health. let's take

a look at how these trans fats are made. the process of hydrogenation starts with a plant that is harvested and then transported to a processing facility here chemical solvents are used to extract oil from the plant . the oil is then bleached deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated to over four hundred degrees fahrenheit thiis extreme temperatures allow a chemical reaction to occur when heavy metals are added as a catalyst through the most commonly used aluminum that gold and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans. finally hydrogen gas is blasted into the tank and bonded to the oil the result is two types of hydrogenated oils only and partially partially hydrogenated oils are the ones preferred by the food restaurant industry but in either case the molecular structure of the oil has been changed and it is no longer in its natural state. problem here is that you really and truly

have no hydrogenation no partial hydrogenation you need to have things that are not altered. the. a low fat diet that has been pushed for many years. by various authorities in the fishing community has really not serve the public well. the reason for that is that. some facts are essential something that they're ok and some are really bad in the trans fat it goes into the really bad category to lump all fats together and say fat is bad and we should reduce fat to improve our health is misguided and not supported by scientific evidence it's it's. a simplification that is simply wrong. fatty acids in the diet are

really critical for almost every step of human biology in the past there was often thought that fat was just fuel that we burned it and got energy that way but we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat creek play a critical biological roles some fatty acids are absolutely essential for the structure for making the membrane around every single cell in our body and other fatty acids play a critical roles is the backbone of hormones and other molecules that influence our heart rhythm and our likelihood of clotting our response to information and many many other really essential biological pathways so this idea that is bad is a bad idea. the

kind of food they were eating now which is heavily processed is a very recent phenomenon if you look over the course of human history it's clear that we are all to live on a different kind of diet than we're consuming now some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of this is what makes some people would like to get their hands on because they're not really what we consider foods. our methods of hunting and gathering became more complex and efficient as time progressed. eventually we learned to cultivate the land and. agriculture began. it's been. planted the first crops. agricultural process to be more productive than hunting

and gathering. peas and flax provided the energy needed to domesticate animals and . the next advancement of technology was. allowed humans to diversify the location. they planted. it didn't take long for our small farms to become plantations complex irrigation techniques allowed for an overabundance of food production and most developed countries. which leads us to our first. the next revolution in food was. cheap ineffective preservatives were needed to prevent spoilage so humans were introduced to modern food processing. chemical concoctions. the first known artificial refrigeration was invented in the mid one thousand nine hundred. more food than the.

ones we had cold storage we still needed a way to keep food on the shelves longer. was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of oil in the early one thousand nine hundred. it was a block and he brought it to procter and gamble in cincinnati ohio he showed up with his block any place that on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's this. replied. procter and gamble quickly hired kaiser and by nine hundred eleven the company had perfected the production of what would come to be known as chris go. at first procter and gamble had to give it away it was marketed as a scientific discovery that will affect every kitchen in america and it dead the american kitchen would soon become a laboratory and mama's little baby learn to love shortening bread. i like to call

them the chris. and what i mean by that is that chris crow was introduced in one thousand and eleven in the early one nine hundred forty s. the christo kids would have been about twenty years they would have been having children at that point and if you read into twenty to fifty you know fifty years that puts it into night hundred sixty nine hundred seventy if you look at the stats that are out there you start seeing a dramatic increase in all of these diseases. it doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated chemicals the holes in the toxins in the additives that are put in the food supply. in one thousand nine hundred five a new processed food revolution. the depression was over the troops were back to their domestic jobs the economy was finally stable and everyone was happy. population explosion creating

a new generation of consumers. packaged food market. shelf life uniformity. the new standards and market forces responded appropriately. congress passed legislation to build an interstate highway system. by linking the forty eight states with state. and. manufactured. like chris. across the country. the manufacture. would still be fresh when it got to washington. today. from austin to minneapolis. it's

a burger king taco bell and chili's. for travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same accustomed menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto or london. in the last hundred years there have been very major changes in our food supply and true of the most important one of them being the large amounts of refined carbohydrate and sugar in our food supply and secondly the partial hydrogenation of liquid vegetable oils in our metabolic machinery is just not capable of dealing with those severe changes that have occurred in our food supply and then of course you add on laur activity levels that have also changed a lot in the last hundred years and we really have a perfect storm of metabolic disaster. in order to better understand heart disease we went to the mount sinai hospital in new york city to meet with the world's leading cardiologist valentyn. was ben the

past president of both the american heart association and the world heart federation. is a behavior problem to. the world he's fighting with you and one of the leading cause of the heart disease is poor dietary choices called the wolf from sun. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these evolving believe that men and women consuming higher levels of command even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart fifteen twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much and they were eating and we did find that even quite small amounts of transfer in approved supplies such as one or two percent of the calories were in this transfer that increased heart disease risk by twenty going up to about eighty percent the harvard school of public health estimates that trans fat has been causing. fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year

so this is a toxic chemical that doesn't belong in the food supply. two hundred fatal heart attacks. in the city of. homicides that one hundred thirty two homicides but people don't focus on the heart attacks because they're not violent. homicides but the reality of death is that the death and we killing ourselves and we killing ourselves. with our teeth. these are the number one cause of death in the world look only in developed countries but now even more of. these heart attacks and so there's no equal to infectious diseases ha ve. to work sure we have really been thrown at the problem of significantly. we've learned the

transplants have many adverse metabolic effects we first transfer outs elevate the bad cholesterol the h.d.l. the good cholesterol but then we found the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general cyst condition of information every organ of the body plus also part of the issue what caused this cluster all to increase its inflammation ok so there are two types of cholesterol and here's what they look like. and is represented by the blue spears. is. enough.

to deal. with. the company. now remember. like a dump truck. and. here's the tricky part trans fats. they increase and inhibit production. and there isn't enough h.d.l. to remove the excess and get clogged. this catastrophic effect.

and they will say you know you're. too expensive. so i think we're going to get. possible it will be impossible to support the system so we are facing a situation which is an economic one if we continue only these will do for you to make of this issue which is a personal one in that these i am interested in. doctor says the treatments of heart disease are too expensive let's take a closer look at what a heart attack really cost meat bob. first charge will be for the ambulance. probably sent to him for chest pain so the

cost arts adding up quickly. time. now it's off to the hospital so. first we need. and. we're here. in. the waiting room. behind.

us. here. drugs. a cardiologist. and. then it's off to surgery.

this. since one nine hundred twenty heart disease has been the number one killer of americans let's put this into perspective forty two thousand americans die each year of car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themself. while some of us are killing each other and others are killing themselves one hundred seventeen thousand die annually in careless accidents we have said to merican troops into war many times over. and all the wars since korea have been about one hundred thousand tragic casualties of war cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us

a year heart disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year we are at war with heart disease and we are losing. that. has an adverse effect on insulin resistance that is it makes the body have to work harder to metabolize glucose and sugars and this is the first step on the road to diabetes so most people. who are overweight have some degree of insulin resistance. if you have a lot of trans fat in the diet that makes it still worse and brings you closer to diabetes and. we're in the midst of a diabetes epidemic along with our obesity epidemic trans is making it worse. twenty four million americans suffer from diabetes and every baby born after the year two thousand has

a one in three chance of contracting this disease which is the leading cause of kidney failure and adult blindness. and remember every soda donut candy and slice of white bread brings you one step closer to contracting diabetes a huge proportion of diabetes is directly attributable to overweight and obesity. if our whole population got down to a b.m.i. of say twenty two or twenty one we'd get rid of three quarters of the diabetes. was . today in the united states nearly two thirds of the population is overweight almost one in three americans. this is not just a few people at the extremes of overweight the large majority of americans are overweight at a level that's having adverse effects on their risk of diabetes and heart disease and about physical education in italy were supposed to be. for ten years we're

supposed to be taking kids out for twenty minutes a. day well the got to get rid of junk food marketing to kids totally inappropriate totally unfair to kids to tempt them to eat foods that are bad for their health cartoon characters are hawking sugar and junk food right past our wallets and into the brains of our children. advertising to children is wrong but that's not the only reason our children are getting fat there are factors operating at many levels that push us as individuals toward or away resulting from overeating and an activity in. these individuals who consume high amounts of trans fats hydrogenated vegetable oils have a substantially higher risk of heart attack sudden death from cardiovascular disease and they also have an increased risk of diabetes in animal studies it actually has been shown to increase when they have the seen amount of calories in the diet with either trans fat or for the oils the monkeys who are on the trans fat

diet actually gain more weight specifically increasing abdominal obesity is just. going to bring. everybody but the whole country is getting will be. so why were you all right. to put it. shivering rich flour was the hydrogenated vegetable oil. ali still beats sixty. five just everything.

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